On Health Intelligence this week, Europe gets real about superbugs.
This month in the European Parliament the Public Health Committee is focused on tackling superbugs; in part, MEPs want to curb the use of antibiotics to fight back against the growing risk of antimicrobial resistance.
Rapporteur, French MEP Françoise Grossetête said: “With the World Health Organisation is … [Read more...]

What if ISIS is the least of our worries this year? What if bacteria pose the greatest threat to Europe in 2016? Much like the rise of jihadi chaos, microbial resistance has been steadily, almost silently, expanding. We won’t see the impact of antimicrobial resistance in our everyday lives until it’s too late, until every tabloid newspaper is screaming “Pandemic!!!”
by Brian … [Read more...]